Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk

Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk is an historian and journalist. She obtained her PhD at the Institute for East-European History at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are women’s and gender history in the 19th and 20th century in Central Eastern Europe, Polish-Jewish history, violence, and the history of emotion.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/leszczawski-schwerk-angelique>.